In the past few months, the leaders of all the public sector unions threatened a mass strike of three million workers over pensions, while this week the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union balloted members on industrial action over
civil service job cuts.
Not exact matches
The union yesterday (24) started balloting more than 250,000 of its members in
civil and public
services for a national strike over
cuts to
jobs, pensions and pay: www.pcs.org.uk
Officials in Spring Valley
cut a
civil service post, but fail to notify the worker who is losing her
job.
In September, ministers claimed to have
cut civil service jobs by 45,551, on a target of 70,600, which the NAO accepts is «significant».
The strike starts a six - week programme of protests by the union's members working in environment and forms part of a
civil service - wide campaign over the government's imposed
cuts to pay, pensions,
jobs and working conditions.
More than a quarter of a million
civil and public servants in the Public and Commercial
Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over
cuts to pensions,
jobs and pay.
«Our members in the
civil service have had enough of the pay freeze and
cuts to
jobs.